How many cigarettes per day was 16-year-old Judy Garland encouraged to smoke in order to keep her weight down during filming of The Wizard of Oz (1939)?
[Answer at the end of today’s blog entry]
Akemi having dinner last night.
It’s a miracle!
Apparently an alien invasion was predicted for December 3rd. I don’t watch network news so I may have missed it.
Answer to our trivia question: The answer is 80! 16-year-old Judy Garland was encouraged to smoke 80 cigarettes a day to keep her weight down during filming of The Wizard of Oz in addition to adhering to a strict diet of black coffee and chicken soup, and taking amphetamines to keep her focused on those long days and then barbiturates to help her sleep nights. Finally, to be extra sure, she was fitted with a corset.
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I get it, my dad at age five smoked to alleviate hunger during the depression; his whole family smoked, kids and parents. He also had the job of fetching a giant block of ice on his little cart for the ice box before going to school. Luckily my mom made him give up cigs when they got together. He did like the occasional cigar which smelled godawful.
Yet when my power went out all day Monday I swore it was a glimpse of the apocalypse.
Some people were commenting about Akemi and her hamburger. I bet she was eating a bagel. Right?
Maybe that alien invasion was a little more subtle. Have you noticed anything strange about your neighbors?
I’d say studio executives are responsible for her addictions. She was just a child. Sixteen-year-old girls were “younger” back then than they are today.
Akemi was eating a toasted bun.
About Judy – that’s worse than what I thought! Wow. They cared nothing about her voice, or her health, and they knew better back then, they knew the long term affects of everything they made her do. They only cared about the “now”, typical of greedy narcissists, who are blind to even the consequences that could affect them in the future, like having Judy in more movies – it’s all about the “now”.